The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
NOTES..

HE Interior has no special sympathy
for DIR. MCGLYNN. He disobeyed the
authority OF his church, knowing the pen.
alties OF disobedience, instead of volun-
tarily putting himself outside of it, as he
should have done. when he found he
could not yield obedience to it.
AT the late meeting of the Bethel pres
bytery, in Bethel, York county, Pa,
resolution was adopted to the effect that
the time had not arrived for the establish
ment OF an organic union, or closer rela-
lions between the Southern Presbyterian
church and the Northern Presbyterian
church.
The dictum that "CleanIiness is next
to godliness," has been ascribed to JOHN
WESLEY, but it is said to have originated
from the following sentence by GEORGE
HERBERT: His "a clergyman's) apparel is
plain, but reverend and clean, without
spots or dust, the purity of his mind
breaking out and dilating Itself even to
his boote, clothes and habitation".
The expression, "the skin of N y teeth"
is commonly supposed to be vulgar slang
Upon reference, however to the Bible,
Job tx 20, the true origin of the express
sion may be found. Many other express
slons regarded as vulgar are traceable to
the same high authority, while not few
generally attributed to the same are of
different origin.
THERE are only about 600 periodicals
of all kinds published in the Russian
Empire, of which 200 are in other Ian
guages than Russian. In other words, it
takes $4,000 Russian subjects to sup
port one periodical, while in the United
States, there is one periodical to every
4, 600 people. OF the 400 Russian periodi-
Gals fifty five are daily, eighty-five week.
ly.
SEVEN hundred Adventiste, with their
families we're recently in camp at the
Exposition grounds in Indianapolis, Ind.
The camp is governed by regulations
adopted by the campers, and the system
is much the same as in municipal gov
ernments. Police chosen from among
the campers, together with detail of
metropolitan officers from the Indianap-
oils force, patrol the grounds at oil hours,
and the discipline is of the strictest kind.
AT recent installation in Brooklyn,
RobERTC OLLYER said in his sermon: "My
old mother was a Baptist right down to
the water, and she took great comfort in
the green pastures and beside the still
waters in which che had been immersed.
1 was baptized in the Episcopal church,
and am strongly drawn to it yet. tell
Bishop POTTER he is my bishop and he
cannot disown me. was brought up in
an old-fashioned egationsl Sunday
school. / was Methodist for ten years,
and Methodlsm was a good nurse and
spanked me well, and 1 go back to her
for good bread and milk. So you see 1
am all right and that they are ali wrong.
But / stay at home in the Unitarian
church and visit the Others"
ABOUT five thousand Professionals of the
Cevennes have celebrated, ON the top of
one of the mountains where their ances-
tors used to meet on Sunday, the centen-
airy of the edict of liberation, signed in
1857 by Louis XVI. The ceremony is
described by an eyewitness as singularly
impressive. A rustic pnlpit had been
erected on the summit of the wild mount
ain which formed there plateau. Thir-
ty pastors in black silk gowns were seated
in front and on a ridge behind the con-
gregation. A commemorative stone was
unveiled by a patriarch of Cevennes and
Pastor VIGUE of the faculty OF Protes tant
theology of Paris, preached sermon on
religious liberation and kindliness. He
took his text from passage in st. Pauls
Epistles to the Corinthians on charity.
WHATEVER may be the physical limita-
tions of the great English preacher, DIR.
JOSEPH PARKER, the published report of
his eulogy on HENRY WARD BEECHER-
delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of
hu5iC On OCt. ueuOD5tTHteb ulm h
master of rhetoric of the first force He
is described as large man, with broad,
bullying forehead, strong features, eyes
that lack brightness and expression when
in repose, long upper lip curving into
the suggestion of a smile; speaking with
a strong north Dillingham; accent, but in
a voice musical and resonant and under
thorough and trained control. In man
ner he is earnest and dramatic, generous
of gesture; in the language of the Brook
Ign Eagle, "a flaming evangel of earnest
ness, run by unmade rules. beyond the
scope or restraint of manufactured sys-
TENS; rebel to rote and the child of lib
erty."
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Nelcs
remarks; GEORGE HERBERT, writing
about sermons, says that when the man
wants senses, God gives a text and
breaches patience. There are other
texts quite worth considering sometimes
that are not read from the pulpit. was in
country church one hot Sunday during
this hot summer, when learned wise
lesson or might have learned one. High
up on the rsfters of the timbered roof
WAC a swallOw's mast with thraa unflado